Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

It surprises me that anybody would buy a car without this data because as most people know MSRP on cars is mostly an irrelevant data point used for marketing purposes. “Invoice price” is an equally meaningless marketing tool. It got me thinking about the tech industry. These are people at every conference.

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Conference Technical Review Truecar Software Review 398

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited. The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). But markets value high growth over short-term profitability. Where are we today?

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

million in a new round of financing from Peter Thiel, FF Angel , Siemer Ventures , 500 Startups , Andrej Henkler (former Bertelsmann executive), and Alexsis de Raadt-St. James (chairman of the Althea Foundation) and appointed Adam Sroka as Senior Vice President of Technology in a move to make business transactions simple and secure. .

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2014

In a world with a rash of startup incubators and accelerators, super angels, crowdfunding sites, and more, what''s the relevance of organized angel investments groups? First off, for those not familiar with the Pasadena Angels, talk about the group? He started the group because he wanted to help companies succeed.

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Pasadena Angels Pasadena Angel Startup 162

Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. The Foundation was created in 1997 by tech pioneers, Jean and Steve Case.

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Startup Technical Review Competition Software Review 140

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

Angel investors are still the lifeblood of early-stage startups, despite the surge of activity in crowdfunding and an increasing early interest from venture capitalists. According to the Angel Capital Association , at least 300,000 people have made angel investments in the last two years, totaling $24 billion in the U.S.

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Angel Startup Technical Review Social Media 65

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

I have to admit when I first walked through the doors of the Los Angeles Convention Center to attend Blog World I asked myself why I was wasting my time. Haven’t I learned by now that it’s better to be disciplined, focused in my office, at the computer, than “on the go” in a daze at a conference. Yet “another networking event”.

Conference 88

Conference Networking Blogging SEO 88

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

These authors speak from their own wealth of experience in creating and growing technology startups, marketing, and fundraising. In that environment, you need to look broadly and work effectively on all the available sources of capital, including friends and family, angel investors, and strategic partners.

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Help Mentor Paramount Technical Review 130

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

From apps to hardware, to KickStarter successes and international startups, we’re inching closer to finding out who will take home the title of Startup of the Year competition at our annual Celebrate Conference in October. Climbing the ranks for our Los Angeles, CA region, Mobile Therapy was one of two semifinal winners.

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Competition Mobile Startup Technical Review 122

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In my experience as an angel investor for new startups, I’m always surprised by how many entrepreneurs are looking for funding without outside advisors. Unless you have a co-founder or two with the business skills to complement your technical ones, you need a friendly Advisory Board. Bandwidth is a constraint we all feel.

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Startup Technical Review Equity Entrepreneur 142

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Just like the sky scraping investment banks of Wall Street, the technology industry tends to be a sausage party. A Silicon Valley conference is a room full of suits, with the occasional skirt suite. Hunt strives to improve product search with crowdsourcing through product questions, comments, and reviews. likely relate to.

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Conference Startup Technical Review Software Review 77

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Their dealflow is angels or seed investors pitching “their best deals” to you in emails. It’s exhausting. Perhaps unsustainable. Play the long game.

Startup 317

Startup Technical Review Venture Capital Email 317

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Some people do the conference circuit too much, get involved in lots of side projects and attend every entrepreneur dinner. When I was running startups I felt like a horse with blinders on because I was super focused on the content management market and ignored many other markets. At least for the best entrepreneurs. I love it.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur 312

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews. One out of ten of Americans are out of work.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

My favorite new VC blogger, Hunter Walk, weighed in with some thoughtful comments about how Syndicates might actually pit, “ angel vs. angel.” I had a chance to discuss AngelList Syndicates with Naval at Michael Kim’s Cendana LP/VC conference on a panel with Naval, Roger Ehrenberg (IA Ventures) and Mike Brown, Jr.

Venture Capital 356

Venture Capital Invest Course Technical Review 356

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Prorata rights are one of the most important rights of a private market technology investors and yet are seldom fully understood. These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. Why prorata rights are becoming a bigger deal to angels.

Guide 336

Guide Venture Capital Startup Writing 336

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2015

Professional investors and advisors, on the other hand, usually refuse to sign these agreements today due to the risk of litigation and administrative workload, and will walk away. If you are approaching a recognized venture capital group, or even an accredited angel investor, a non-disclosure agreement is counter-productive.

Ideas 106

Ideas Technical Review Patents Entrepreneur 106

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2017

They seem shocked to learn that most professional investors and advisors, myself included, routinely decline such requests, due to costly litigation and administrative nightmares. Potential investors don’t need this data, except perhaps as part of a final due diligence after an initial signed agreement.

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Technical Review Patents Ideas Social Media 61

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2013

gaming and mobile tracks others took advantage of during the course of the three-day conference held consecutively at ROC , Cross Campus and Santa Monica Place. One such entrepreneur was Adam Miller , Cornerstone OnDemand , CEO, who kicked off the conference at ROC. 4 P’s of Success. Meet The Accelerators.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Santa Monica Technical Review Startup 93

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

How do you take a new, genetic test to market, and how do you bridge the gap between research and the market? Our interview today is with Alan Horsager , the CEO of Pasadena-based Episona (www.episona.com), an angel backed startup which has already developed and has been offering up an epigenetic test for male fertility.

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USC Technical Review Startup Southern California 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

Los Angeles area entrepreneurs, investors, and startups have gotten to know Paige Craig fairly well over the last few years, as he's made many investments in the local ecosystem. I know you've talked about this before, but how did you end up in Los Angeles? She planted the seed into my head that LA was an up and coming tech scene.

Startup 216

Startup Technical Review Software Review Platform 216

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Being an entrepreneur is about, “The journey through the ‘NO’ to get to the YES’ ” said by Ryan Caldbeck, CEO of CircleUp , on a panel at the Connections Conference in Indianapolis. We are in a different age now where technology is so important and I wanted to be connected with people along the way.”

Startup 104

Startup Technical Review Search Engine Optimization Los Angeles 104

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

We kind of feel like those are the markets that matter to digital media companies in the United States. HG: I think the big challenge for our market – which isn’t a secret – is not withstanding all this energy and entrepreneurial activity. How is the LA startup scene? What lies in the future for LA startups?

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Los Angeles Media Invest Startup 84

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Tech. Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. The tech industry is going south. » More. » More.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. I often tell people that in some ways it’s easier to build great companies in down markets.

Software Review 150

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Invest 150

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Jason is also behind the popular "Startups Uncensored" events in Los Angeles, so we also pinged him on how those events have been going. This is a really big, $50 million business at least, and we really want to own the market. Do you think you could have offered this earlier, or was it due to the scale that you could launch this?

Technical Review 171

Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

As 2010 approaches, a whole new year of exciting start-ups, tech news, gadgets, and much more is ahead. TechZulu wants to thank not only the Los Angeles tech community but the entire tech community for all the awesome support you have given us throughout this past year. We already have a jammed packed schedule for 2010.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. The 99% conference is aimed at creative professionals and is focused on Edison's "99% perspiration." Yes, even bootstrappers.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

At O ctober’s ICANN 51 conference in Los Angeles , the ICANN’s Trademark Clearinghouse was tasked with explaining the new Internet landscape to attendees. Third, review your current website for SEO best-practices to solidify your online brand with the major search engines as well as customers.

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Conference SEO Software Review IP 77

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The USC Alumni Club of West Los Angeles is putting on an amazing seminar and networking event with host Sasha Strauss. The seminar is due to have rich content on all thing branding. They will look at why brands matter, who they matter to, how you can build them into your marketing, advertising and public relations strategies.

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West Los Angeles USC Networking Los Angeles 56

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

We caught up with Jeffrey Hayzlett at the 140 character conference held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. He also held senior management positions in strategic business development and marketing at several companies, including Cenveo, Webprint and Colorbus, Inc., Read More about Jeffrey Here ).

Software Review 40

Software Review Technical Review Screening Conference 40

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

He then invested in about twenty companies, almost all of them in Los Angeles or Southern California. I met him a year ago, and we got chatting about the market, what's going on, and his own interest in getting back involved in investing. I don't think that is going to go away just because the market is down.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Ramin Sadr is CEO of Los Angeles-based Mojix (www.mojix.com), a firm which is taking experience originally garnered by the firm's technology team in developing -- of all things -- deep space probes for NASA, and has been applying that to the RFID market. So this technology is now being deployed? Sadr about the firm.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Innocal Technology Software Review 113

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

For Producers, designers, project managers (in gaming companies, agencies, marketers, brands, and artists) hungry for proven techniques to leverage augmented reality to advance your brand, attract and keep your customers, and build successful campaigns and products that will delight users. Conference details –. Interview coming soon ).

Software Review 73

Software Review Case Study Startup Technical Review 73

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 8, 2011

A blog with our reviews of the scene, locations, etc. After this question, Val and I went on to discuss the dating scene in Los Angeles from both the males and females prospectives. Speaking to the LA tech scene as that’s where I am. My number one advice is the need to support other females in tech.

Startup 75

Startup Technical Review Blogging Demand 75